HMS Spy was launched at 1800 at Topsham in 1800 as the mercantile vessel Comet. The Royal Navy purchased her in 1804 and renamed her HMS Spy. From 1810...
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Royal Navy have been named HMS Spy: HMS Spy (1756) was a Bonetta-class sloop launched at Rotherhithe in 1756. HMS Spy (1804) was launched at Topsham in...
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Robert (1793 ship) (redirect from HMS Espion (1793))
then, the British renamed their capture HMS Spy. She served under that name until the Navy sold her in 1801. Spy then became a slave ship in the triangular...
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HMS Swift was the whaler Pacific launched in 1802 that the British Royal Navy purchased in 1804 on her return from the Galápagos Islands. She served briefly...
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List of single-ship actions (redirect from HMS Hussar (1780))
Buonaparte. 1804, July 15 – French privateer Dame Ambert captures HMS Lilly 1804, July 31 – HMS Tartar captures French privateer Hirondelle 1804, August 4...
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football. Nepean entered the Royal Navy on 28 December 1773, serving on HMS Boyne as a clerk to Capt. Hartwell. He was promoted to purser in 1775. During...
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French spy in Boston, first seen by Maturin in European capitals. British: HMS Leopard – a 50-gun fourth rate (converted to a troop transport) HMS La Flèche...
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HMS Penguin later that year or early the next, and sold in 1809. Comet was launched at Topsham in 1800. The British Royal Navy purchased her in 1804,...
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HMS Victorious was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Blackwall Yard, London on 27 April 1785. She was the first ship...
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Falklands War (section Sinking of HMS Sheffield)
Navy personnel, 22 were lost in HMS Ardent, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Sheffield, 19 + 1 lost in HMS Coventry and 13 lost in HMS Glamorgan. Fourteen naval cooks...
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Battle of Pulo Aura (redirect from Action of 15 February 1804)
was a minor naval engagement of the Napoleonic Wars, fought on 14 February 1804, in which a large convoy of Honourable East India Company (HEIC) East Indiamen...
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50-gun fourth-rate HMS Chatham under Rear Admiral Parry, in 1772, in the Leeward Islands. Gambier was placed on the sloop HMS Spy and was then posted...
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Peggy Shippen (category 1804 deaths)
(July 11, 1760 – August 24, 1804) was the second wife of General Benedict Arnold. She has been described as "the highest-paid spy in the American Revolution"...
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HMS Arab and the Danish Brig Lougen The Rise of Emperor Dessalines including letters from Perkins to Admiral Duckworth 1804 Ships of the Old Navy HMS...
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being another Espion in service by then, the British renamed their capture HMS Spy. She served under that name until the Navy sold her in 1801. She then became...
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Glatton, papers, 1801, I. HMS Irresistable, Commission, 1801, J. HMS Warrior, Commission, 1804, K. Captain and Governor-in-Chief of the Territory of New South...
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Hércules de Miranda (1912–1982), Brazilian footballer Hércules Florence (1804–1879), French-Brazilian painter and inventor Hercules Huncks (died 1660)...
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States Navy, who served aboard Bonhomme Richard during its 1779 battle with HMS Serapis. Fanning was born in Stonington, Connecticut, and was the eldest...
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Trim (1799–1804) was a ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia in 1801–1803. Trim...
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ABC. "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage.nsw.gov.au. Retrieved 2024-03-12. "Kemps Creek". Penrith City Local History. "HMS - ViewItem". www.hms.heritage...
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Georges Cadoudal (category 1804 deaths)
Georges Cadoudal (Breton: Jorj Kadoudal; January 1, 1771 – June 25, 1804), sometimes called simply Georges, was a Breton counter-revolutionary and leader...
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Leander left Port of Spain on 24 July, together with HMS Express, HMS Attentive, HMS Prevost, and HMS Lilly, carrying General Miranda and some 220 officers...
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Taylor, Alan (2016). American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750–1804. W.W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393354768. Thompson, Mary (2008). In The...
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Point, consisted of the ships of the line HMS Ramillies and HMS Valiant along with the frigates HMS Acasta and HMS Orpheus. Realizing his only chance for...
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ship in between May 1803 and late 1804, when she was captured. Manuela, built as clipper ship Sunny South, captured by HMS Brisk in Mozambique Channel with...
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the flagship of the First Sea Lord has nominally been the ship of the line HMS Victory, which used to be Lord Nelson's flagship. The following table lists...
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28-gun sixth-rate frigate HMS Hind commanded by his uncle Captain Alexander Cochrane. He transferred to the 38-gun fifth-rate HMS Thetis, also under his...
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John Howe (loyalist) (category British spies)
Reformer, 1804-1848 (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1982). Grant, John N. "John Howe, Senior: Printer, Publisher, Postmaster, Spy," pp...
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HMS Dryad was a fifth-rate sailing frigate of the Royal Navy that served for 64 years, at first during the Napoleonic Wars and then in the suppression...
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Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
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